An Austin champagne bar + pizza, an idea Merit should steal 😏, and Aritzia linen + the jeans I kept

Happy Sunday!

Hubby and I went to a cocktail + champagne bar called “Daydreamer” in East Austin this week, which has an allday pizza truck on the back patio.

The vibes were very cute, but for describing themselves as a champagne bar, I was surprised that they only had one champagne that could be ordered by the glass, with 4 others that could be ordered by the bottle. It would be SO cute if they did a mini champagne flight?? I ended up ordering a glass of the sparkling chenin, which was good.

Allday pizza is cool because you can order pizza by the slice and try a bunch of different flavors - our favorite was the spicy marg. I was most excited for the cacio pepe, but it was pretty bland and I wouldn’t get it again.

The combined experience of Daydreamer + allday pizza is a 4/5; I think separately they would each be a 3.5/5.

Last week, I wrote about my hunt to find jeans that fit. Well, of the three styles I ordered, the Aritzia Marlo jeans* were the perfect relaxed vibes. They’re made from a lighter denim fabric and will get a lot of wear this spring. I can’t wait to style them for you! The The Farrah Hi-rise Wide Jean* were a tighter fit and the Abercrombie High Rise 90s Relaxed Jean* had a super high rise, so I sent them back. I ordered a few additional sneaky linen items from Aritzia since I was placing an order anyways. I have this Regal Linen Vest* in gray and I picked it up in white and black. I also ordered these linen pants* in brown - they are a little long but fit well with heels! I wore the black vest and brown pants to Daydreamer.

I also popped into a Sephora last week because I wanted to swatch the new Merit lip liners* and lip glosses* and am a complete idiot because I didn’t take any pictures of the swatches for the newsletter - I was just that genuinely excited and curious about the formula! My impressions were that they were really silky and forgiving, similar to the Rhode liner*, but much skinnier which may make it easier to line lips. Colors wise, Beverly Hills showed up as a light pink on my hand, Bespoke and Coupe were both medium pinks, and the remaining 5 were varying shades of brown. I’ll probably pick up Beverly Hills and one other shade during the Sephora sale in a few weeks!

I was also curious about the new shades of the Complexion Stick. Sand is my tan shade and Ecru is my lighter shade and the newer shades weren’t that different to justify picking up another shade. However, I had a thought, wouldn’t it be cool if Merit launched double sided complexion sticks that could be customized based upon your summer and winter shades? That way, I’d just need to purchase or travel with one stick, rather than carry two around?

Thanks for reading,
Cost per Fit 💰

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